The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-08
BADGER NOTES,

Two drowning accidents occurred at
Mi waukee on the 1st, within d short
distance OF each other. A 5-year- old
boy named Anton Niedermeyer, while
picking up chips on the dock, fell in
and was drowned. The same morning
the body of George w. Patterson, an
old veteran, was pulled from the riv-
er. The next morning the body CT an
unknown man was found in the river
only a short distance away.
THE jury in the case OF M. Weber
against the town of Greenfield, Mil
waukee County, awarded 81, 500 to
the plaintiff. He fell on a defective
road.
JOHN CARN, known as tramping
workman. dropped dead at Ashland
while saving wood.
FRANK RAYMOND, charged at La
Crosse with burglary, pleaded guilty
aud was sentenced to fourteen years
Imprisonment at hard labor.
A MILWAUKEE firm has purchased
So, 900 worth OF cord wood on the
Door County peninsula.
DRIVEN to desperation by poverty
and his infrmities, Frank jain, 8
blind peddler of Milwaukee, jumped
into the lake from the government
pier on the 29tb and was drowned.
AN Eau Claire saloonkeeper was
swindled out OF $3.50 by the sawdust
game.
The sale of the Knapp-Stout Com
pany's lands to +. Weyerhauser has
been made, the price paid being ST..
100000.
LOUIS REDELHONER, of Potosi, was
instantly killed by an accidental dis
charge OF his gun while he was hunt
ing.
THE veterans of the Indian war of
] 862 will be invited to participate in
the Eau Claire reunion OF the Eighth
regiment.
THE Milwaukee & Northern Railway
Company is putting down steel be
tween Iron Mountain and Republic,
and isn't very far behind in the race
with the Northwestern. 1t is pushing
for Champion with vigor and will be
there in about sixty days.
A. NJ. SEARLE, OF Prairie du CHEN,
has assigned his business at Lynx
vile to A.Wolcott for the benefit Of
his creditors.
Four plasterers at Ashland went
on O. strike for an increase in pay
from So. so to 81 per day and the
nine hour work-day. The strikers de-
stroyed a number OF tools owned by
the foreman.
THE barn and contents of Samuel
Kiemer, four miles west of Eau Claire,
were destroyed by fire, causing q loss
OF S4 900. Insurance, 50, 800.
EAU CLAIRE is sending a large mum.
Der OF men to the woods to arrange
the preliminaries for the winters log
ging campaign.
THE dwelling and contents OF IT. c.
Loomis, Union, Eau Claire County,
were destroyed by fire.
EAU CLAIRE people pay $3.50 per
ton for coal
THE Eau Claire Prohibition Club is
fitting up club rooms.
A MINNESOTA hunter named Leon
Hull drove two old bears and five
cubs into icket in the woods
north OF Eau Claire and in twenty
minutes killed the cubs and one of
the old ones.
ROOD & MAXWELL, of Washburn,
deny q report that they are in finan-
cial difficulties.
MRS. DAVIDSON, wife OF Capt. P. S.
Davidson, Of La Crosse, is dead.
CATHERINE PIERICK has been ap-
pointed postmistress at Dry Bone,
Iowa County.
A PARTY Of La Crosse sportsmen
charter thesteamer Vivian for hunt
ing trip to Lake Pepin.
DIPHTHERIA prevails in North La
Crosse to an alarming extent. New
cases OF the disease are reported daily
THE Rood & Maxwell mill at Mud
Lake, Barron County, was destroyed
by fire.
A SUB. CONTRACTOR on the Duluth,
South Shore & Atlantic Railway has
disappeared, leaving the laborers EN-
ployed by him unpaid.
THE barn, grain, harnesses and fifty
tons of hay, the seasons crop OF grain,
five colts, a threshing NJ achine, wagon,
implements and barns of ex-Sheritf
Richardson, of Eau Claire County, at
Lincoln, were destroyed by fire,
caused by lantern exploding. Loss,
81, 700.
Mrs. A. E. EARLY and Miss Claire
Leedon attempted to drive across a
railway track at Florence in front of
q moving train. Seeing that the en-
CINE would strike them, they turned
sharply barely escaping the locomo-
tive. The carriage was tipped over
and both badly hurt by the fall.
THE common council of Rice Lake
has been petitioned for special cleo
tion to vote on the question of bond
ing the city to raise funds for water
works system.
THE North La Crosse Masonic Tenn
pie Association has filed amended ar
Uices with the secretary OF state in
crossing the capital stock from S., 900
to $4,000.
THE case of Louis Paul against the
Florence Mining Company has been
transferred from the Florence County
circuit court to the United States
court.
Two handsome cottages costing
about $5, 900 will be built by the Ash
and Water Company near their
pumping station, to be occupied by
the engineers and their assistants.
AN Iron Mountain paper announces
the marriage OF Florence man whose
suit for divorce from his first wife,
who deserted him, is pending in the
Florence County circuit court.
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